The Indianapolis journal., 1887-12-18
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

SANTA CLAUS is being measured for his
Christmas soot.-New York Morning Journal
MRS LANeTRY bought handsome and
pensive rocking chair a few days ago. and
dered it sent to the Prince of Wales.
THE Wichita Eagle denies that that city has
lost its boom. 1t estimates that $500 buildings
have been erected in the city, this year. at cost
of over Sc, 000,0 900.
MoLTKE is reported toshave said recently: 'In
my youth it was predicted I should take part in
three great wars 1 have taken part in two"
When may expect the third
PROF FRANCIS n THORPE 1ecturing in Phila-
delphia on 1.-THE Title toss the Public Domain
said that of all the territory west of the Missis-
sippi the tract constituting the State of Oregon
is the only one which Uncle Sam aqulred
honestly.
THE Boston Transcript, commenting on the
proposed presidential ticket of Harrison and
Hawley, says that there is one objection to it.
sHooray for Harrison and Hawley would De
very trying shout for the B1tish-Amerlcan Re
publicans.
THE late Mrs John Jacob Astor gave very
largely to charities connected with the Protest
ant Episcopal Church, but as her bequests were
ALWAYS made with the request that her name be
concealed, it never known how much she
gave, where the money wa $ given.
DOROTHY WHITSEY WHO was once person
age of national fame, has been somewhat
neglected by the press of late. She has not
allowed this fact to depress her, however. Mon
day she reached the mature age of ten months,
and celebrated the occasion by cutting her tenth
tooth.
ONE of Senator Edmundss favorite amuse
ments is to guy Senator Evarts when the latter
attempts TO make a speech. He does this in the
most serious manner. and 1T was long while
before the eminent New Yorker could be made
TO understand that Edmunds did not mean all
he said.
FI,IrScf yyn will
the bishopric of Lahore at the end of this year,
is one of the most scholarly members of the
American communion. In India he is popularity
called .the -tongued man of Lahore on
account of his ability to preach III nine or ten
different languages
L. @. G. LAMAR says that Frankllns autobl-
ooraphy was the first book put in his hands by
his mother after he had passed the age of toy
books He was delicate boy, but worked with
the others on his fathers plantation, where he
learned to plow and plant and dig garden, and
even to shoe a horse
OBJECTION is made to the floral tributes"
placed on the desk of Congressman that they
convey the impression to the uninihated that
funeral is about to take place. The floral trb
ute is all right for actresses and songstresses.
but for such hardened mascui1nIty as that OF
Congressman they seem decidedly out OF place
FASHIONABLE New York clergyman re-
ceiyed for his wedding fee beautiful gold
locket bearing his wifes initials IN diamonds
Behind the glass in the iocket was hundred
dollar bill for the clergyman. Ii TINS becomes
+ba custom and extends to giving fees to the
clergyman's sisters cousins and aunts. the incl
dental expense will tend to discourage the mat
rimonia1 business OF The country.
HreH M. BROWNE teacher of German IN the
Hiph.school of Washington, student of
Harvard. Princeton and Heidelberg a
nrofessor in the University of Monrovia, and
fine looking mulatto is talked of the success
cor of Taylor as Minister to Siberia, at sal
ary of So 900. Frank Carpenter describes Iay-
Ior as "a short. beefy, gross-looklng man, with
a bead like a cannon ball, and entirely devoid
of expression or intellectual character"
rur Rev. DR.. Scott dean of Rochester, whose
death at the age of seventy-slx mas oeen an
nounced, was the partner of Dean Liddell. of
Christ Church, Oxford, in the authorship of the
preat Greek lexicon that bears their names. 1t
is told that the digniied and learned gentlelsen
aIlowed the ,nselves a joke apiece in that molu-
mental work DIR. SCOTS was this, that the
der iyation of the word sycophant tor rather ats
Greek chronological equivalentl from the CIR,
cumstance of the informers who denounced
tbe iynnortation of figs into Attica lis mere
fgment
DR CHARLES F. MDoNALp, head of the eposal
money order branch of the Postoffice Depart
ment. at Washington, claims to be the first
Irish American graduate from Harvard He
has lived in Washington for thirty five years,
and what he does not know about the history e
that city during that period is hardly worti
| knowing He has been in the Postoffice De
nartment napT longer than any other man, and il
Spite of his youthful spirits and manner his
associates look upon him as a prehistoric char-
| acter He is the father OF the postal money
order system employed by the United States !
WHEN in Paris last year the King of Greece
| called at the Elysee. The conversation turned
on the affection of the Greek people for their
| King. Yes said the King, the Greeks are
really attached to me. They know love their